collaboration

UK/kəˌlæbəˈɹeɪʃən/US/kəˌlæbəˈɹeɪʃən/

nounC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,794 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: collaborations

Collaboration is working together on something. Close collaboration, in collaboration with, a research collaboration.

It has a second and much darker sense of helping an enemy occupying your country, which the Second World War fixed in the language. Context keeps the two apart without difficulty.

Definitions of collaboration

1nouncollaborationWorking together on something.C1
“The book came out of a collaboration between two rival departments.”

collaboration is a working together.

Where it comes from

Latin collaborare is com, with, plus laborare, to work.

Latin
collaboratus
French
collaboration
English, today
collaboration

Built from

labōrō · Latin — work

Originated 1855–60 from French collaboration, from Latin collaboratus + -ion, from Latin con- (“with”) + labōrō (“work”). Morphologically collaborate + ion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

collaboration in the wild

Trade between nations is a form of collaboration between two societies which produce and exchange different portfolios of goods.
Collaboration
Class collaboration is the act of social or economic classes working together toward a certain goal.
Class collaboration
The meaning shifted during World War II to designate traitorous collaboration with the enemy.
Wartime collaboration
Individuals such as Hendrik Seyffardt in the Netherlands and Theodoros Pangalos in Greece saw collaboration as a path to personal power in the politics of their country.
Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy
Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany took place during the occupation of Poland and the Ukrainian SSR, USSR, by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany

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